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The Effects of Changes in Sales Tax Rates on Retail Prices
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The Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Referendum and the Financing of Public School Capital Projects in Georgia
<p>Although taxes have risen across the nation, funding for public school capital projects still remains a critical need in education. The public outcry for no new taxes has given arise to various types of creative funding for capital projects. The use of a 1-cent sales tax for educational purposes …
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Form Based Codes and Economic Impacts: A Multivariate Regression Analysis and Case Study
… if and how form based codes alter property tax and sales tax generation in the cities that adopt them. To examine the relationship between form based codes and public finance a series of two multivariate regression analyses were conducted using historic property and sales tax data. The first …
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MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMMODITY PRICE DYNAMICS
… of Wal-Mart significantly increases total retail sales and decreases sales tax rate, but have no significant effect on total taxable retail sales and total revenue from sales tax. The instrumental variable (IV) estimation shows that presence of Wal-Mart significantly decreases sales tax rate but …
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Equity in Funding for Iowa's Public Schools
… infrastructure funding due to the Local Option Sales Tax Bill passed in 1988. Procedures. Several states and their funding systems have been determined unconstitutional by State Supreme Courts in the past decade. Ohio continued to remain in litigation through February 2002 while Texas went …
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The value added tax, with reference to South Africa
… interest in recent years in the Value Added Tax (hereinafter referred to as the VAT). Interest in tax reform is perennial but the factor which has generated such wide interest in the VAT has been its adoption by the member countries of the European Economic Community (EEC). The recent entry …
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Essays on Local Public Finance and Financial Behavior
… The first two essays examine the impact of local tax policies on local economy, while the third essay looks specifically at the behavioral effects of mobile payment and online shopping in China.The first essay examines the relationship between business activity and property taxes using …
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The effects and influences of South African taxation on the valuation of company shares, business interests and other assets
… aspects of valuations and the major aspects of taxation which should be borne in mind by a valuer. The second part, which commences on page 102, is a compendium of brief comment on tax matters and tax cases which may be of interest to a valuer. The document is based on research carried out in …
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Three Empirical Essays in Public Economics
… of consumers to the imposition of online sales taxes. The second essay examines the effect of the Nevadan labor force on Nevada county budgets with a particular focus on employees who commute out of their place of residence to work. The third essay uses Clark County Nevada home and …
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Calculators in Special Education Mathematics Classes in a Junior High School
… from balancing checkbooks to computing sales tax.</p> <p>Yet there are teachers and many parents who believe, says Wheatley (1984), that using calculators will lessen the opportunity for students to master basics. They believe that calculators should not be used until children become …
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Tax policy reforms in Thailand : a computable general equilibrium approach
… This created public investment problems. Tax reforms consequently became a major issue, but in the light of the international debate that placed a high value on avoiding tax increases, the emphasis was on a tax structure that would improve tax efficiency and contribute to greater …
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Tax policy reforms in Thailand : a computable general equilibrium approach
… This created public investment problems. Tax reforms consequently became a major issue, but in the light of the international debate that placed a high value on avoiding tax increases, the emphasis was on a tax structure that would improve tax efficiency and contribute to greater …
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Paying for transit operations : challenges and solutions for the Chicago Transit Authority
… service. The RTA should increase their sales tax contributions to improve regional equity and increase resources. These resources should be used to address growing paratransit needs.
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Foundations for Policy Innovations: Exploring Local Policy Diffusion
… across different policies. This study explores Tax Incremental Financing districts, smoking bans, and the sales tax rates of counties in the state of Missouri. Missouri is politically, economically, and demographically similar to other states, therefore making it a sufficient case for this …
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An Economic Analysis of Using Retired Vessels to Create Artificial Reefs in Costa Rica
… the artificial reef would come from the 13% sales tax revenue paid by</p> <p>the additional anglers and scuba divers. The high and low seasons, high and low amenity costs, payback period, interest rates and the installment payment or capital recovery formula are several of the variables that …
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Perceptions and Attitudes of Healthcare Students Towards Marijuana
… its recent legalization in Washington State, sales tax alone has accumulated $400 million dollars in the past 3 years. With this increase in use an examination of healthcare students was warranted. Most students also felt there was a need for more education on marijuana and that their current …
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Governor James F. Byrnes and South Carolina's "Education Revolution"
… improvements were financed by a three percent sales tax that the Governor had led the General Assembly to pass. Then to make certain that the schools were not desegregated, Governor Byrnes set up state committees to plan new schools and to seek ways of continuing a segregated school system. He …
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Regional parking fee : a potential funding source for transit?
… these goals. When compared with the option of a sales tax increase, the advantages of a parking fee include: - It would encourage a greater sense of regionalism - It would have a rational nexus to auto mode externalities - The statutory incidence would not be on the general public and the …
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Essays on contract theory and behavioral economics
… When consumers are partially naive, the optimal sales tax may be either positive or negative and depends on parameters that are hard to estimate. In the case of immediate-rewards goods, however, the equilibrium features marginal-cost pricing and is always Pareto inefficient. Moreover, the optimal …
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The Impact of Natural Resource Booms on Local Economic Conditions
… the impact of local economic conditions on the sales and income tax bases. I find that increases in the value of oil produced substantially increase the sales and income tax bases. More specifically, during the boom, a doubling in the value of oil produced led to an 18 percent increase in the …
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